Category: Photography
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Tokyo Diaries: Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden (in the Pouring Rain)
Wherein your aimless tourist visits the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on a particularly heavy rain day.
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Tokyo Diaries: Neighbourhood Mailboxes
One of the lovlier things about travelling is fresh eyes: mundane scenes from everyday life become interesting. This is particularly true if you’re a little bit off the tourist path. My hotel was in the Ryugoku area of Sumida. This isn’t a neighbourhood you’ll hear a lot about (Shibuya, Ginza and Shinjuku have the good…
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Henry Moore, Two Large Forms
Two Large Forms is located in the Grange Park at the back of the Art Gallery of Ontario and adjacent to the OCADU. You can learn more about it in a little feature the AGO posted.
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Hooded Mergansers at the Stone Pond
Humber Bayshores’ Stone Pond can be a bit overrun with birds at times, most of them pretty standard ducks, Canada Geese and a few swans. The Hooded Mergansers are in around this time of year though, and they are very pretty.
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France
Today marks the re-opening of Notre Dame cathedral. I’ve never been inside–both of my Paris visits came after the fire–but I figured it might be worth looking back on some photos taken both before and after the spire was restored. One of these days I’ll get inside.
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Brother Bob Sumner at the Horseshoe Tavern
For my money, one of the finest voices to emerge in the Americana scene in the last few years is Vancouver’s Brother Bob Sumner. Not long after I moved from Vancouver to Toronto a few years ago Bob played a night of music at the Dakota Tavern celebrating the release of his beautiful Wasted Love…